The Best Pocket Digital Camera For The Money

What defines a good digital camera? If you’re talking high pixels, big LCD screen, and fast response then the Fujifilm FinePix E550 is just for you. The Fine Pix E550 is the first in Fuji’s E series and hopefully not the last. Costing under a hundred dollars, it comes with a ton of awesome features:

•6 megapixel great for any posters
•A big 2 inch display
•4x Optical Zoom and 6.3 X digital zoom
•Designed for both novice and intermediate photographers
•Uses XD cards and AA batteries

The Fujifilm has outdone themselves this time. The E550 has a silver colored case with textured grip and an easy to use pop up flash. With all that, the Fine Pix E550 only weighs 9.2 ounces (4.1 by 2.5 by 1.4 inches). However, the cover for the USB, A/V, and DC-power connections isn’t attached to the camera making it an easy item to lose. Probably the best part of the camera is the vibrant 2 inch LCD screen that provides a sharp and accurate preview for your snapshots. Other cameras in this price range can’t compete with the FinePIx E550.

The E550 has tons of great features that put it out of its league. It has four modes: Sport, Night, Landscape, and portrait that automatically adjust the ISO setting, flash, and shutter speed all with one click. If you’re an expert you will like all the customized settings including the shutter priority, aperture priority, and programmed auto modes for the camera. The FinePix E550 offers an array of great focus options which include: center-weighted spot focus, manual focus, or multiweighted focus. The 4x optical zoom gives you a great range from 32mm to 130mm. With all that even the pickiest shopper would be satisfied.

When I first tried out the camera, I wasn’t expecting much due to its cheap price. I was blown off my feet by its amazing speed. The elapsed time from pressing the button to the camera taking the shot is an amazing 1.8 seconds on average. Compare that to the 2.3 seconds on my old Olympus camera that was more expensive. The automatic focus works really well in both bright environments and dim environments. However, it’s a little difficult to see your subject when taking pictures in dim places. What’s really impressive is the LCD screen. Typically, lower end cameras have inaccurate LCD screens showing only 80% of what’s in the real picture. The Fine Pix E550’s LCD screen has almost 100% coverage of the real picture, so you don’t have to guess or get out the Photoshop to crop.

The big question is can the E550 do all this without making you go through mountains of batteries? In recent test results, using the AA alkaline cells the E550 was able to capture 321 pictures before dying off.

The Fuji FinePix E550 is one of the best cameras in its price range costing under a hundred dollars providing a splendid LCD screen, great features, and an amazing speed, it makes a great gift for any photographer.


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Sony Digital Video Cameras - Don't Beat Yourself Up When Searching

Sony Digital Video Cameras have been obtained through online purchases 235 times looking at the past 30 days. Most of these 235 purchases were made using Internet auctions. Let's take a look at all sides of deciding to buy Sony Digital Video Cameras using the Internet and your home computer. This will provide in-depth information on pricing to be able to refer to when you begin the task of comparing your choices for Sony Digital Video Cameras.

The options available for consumers looking to purchase Sony Digital Video Cameras have expanded beyond anything seen in the past. Internet auction websites and marketplaces are by far the biggest reason why this is happening. When you look at the last 30 days, Sony Digital Video Camera auction sales alone have been responsible for a total of $72,255.93. Statistics show that they appeared for sale 406 times over this period. Examining the information about the 406 times they were offered, 225 of them finished with a closed deal. The success rate for a listing was 55.42%, and there were about 11 different vendors selling Sony Digital Video Cameras online on a daily basis.

Now that we have a good idea of what is going on regarding shopping at online auctions, let's spend some time getting an in depth picture of some in depth information about these transactions. The data tells us that the average amount to purchase Sony Digital Video Cameras was $307.47. The absolute most that was spent was $4,045.00. The winning bid with the least amount spent was $0.99. But the average person shopping in online auctions purchased at a price of $328.99. What this information suggests is if you can find something right at or anywhere below $328.99, you can be sure that your purchase was well worth it.

When you're ready to buy Sony Digital Video Cameras, the first place to look when on any auction site should be the featured items. It varies with the auction site you're on but generally, these might be items that are showcased in a certain category, or you might find them in a more general category for the whole website. The fastest selling items are always the featured listings, which is why they also result in a higher percentage of sales made. Over a period in the past 30 days, 3 Sony Digital Video Cameras were listed specifically in a category of other similar items. When you look at these 3 listings, 3 resulted in a successful sale. So that means that overall, featured items have a winning rate of 100.00%.

The next thing that we'll take a look at is what kind of listing the seller used. When putting up their Sony Digital Video Camera to sell them on an online auction, sellers might choose to offer them for one day, or as many as ten days. The most promising listing to look at is Store listings because of its average ending sale price of $134.99. If Store auction listings are not there, then the next best type to look for is Bid-Auctions listings. Bid-Auctions listings have a very respectable closing price of $281.40.

Being armed with good information is definitely something that will help in the final bill when you're shopping at online auction sites. It will always pay off when you have made sure that you know all about Sony Digital Video Cameras before you begin to compare prices. When you start to look around for pricing information on auction sites, refer to the information we have given you here so you know if you are indeed paying the average price, and you will have an advantage when placing bids on Sony Digital Video Cameras. When at an online auction site, if it has featured categories, be sure to give them more than just a glance because that is where you will probably find the best prices. Also, if you can, shop on the days of the week when you're most likely to pay the lowest price, because those can be the best days that you will find the best deals on Sony Digital Video Cameras.


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Sony Digital Video Cameras - Don't Beat Yourself Up When Searching

Sony Digital Video Cameras have been obtained through online purchases 235 times looking at the past 30 days. Most of these 235 purchases were made using Internet auctions. Let's take a look at all sides of deciding to buy Sony Digital Video Cameras using the Internet and your home computer. This will provide in-depth information on pricing to be able to refer to when you begin the task of comparing your choices for Sony Digital Video Cameras.

The options available for consumers looking to purchase Sony Digital Video Cameras have expanded beyond anything seen in the past. Internet auction websites and marketplaces are by far the biggest reason why this is happening. When you look at the last 30 days, Sony Digital Video Camera auction sales alone have been responsible for a total of $72,255.93. Statistics show that they appeared for sale 406 times over this period. Examining the information about the 406 times they were offered, 225 of them finished with a closed deal. The success rate for a listing was 55.42%, and there were about 11 different vendors selling Sony Digital Video Cameras online on a daily basis.

Now that we have a good idea of what is going on regarding shopping at online auctions, let's spend some time getting an in depth picture of some in depth information about these transactions. The data tells us that the average amount to purchase Sony Digital Video Cameras was $307.47. The absolute most that was spent was $4,045.00. The winning bid with the least amount spent was $0.99. But the average person shopping in online auctions purchased at a price of $328.99. What this information suggests is if you can find something right at or anywhere below $328.99, you can be sure that your purchase was well worth it.

When you're ready to buy Sony Digital Video Cameras, the first place to look when on any auction site should be the featured items. It varies with the auction site you're on but generally, these might be items that are showcased in a certain category, or you might find them in a more general category for the whole website. The fastest selling items are always the featured listings, which is why they also result in a higher percentage of sales made. Over a period in the past 30 days, 3 Sony Digital Video Cameras were listed specifically in a category of other similar items. When you look at these 3 listings, 3 resulted in a successful sale. So that means that overall, featured items have a winning rate of 100.00%.

The next thing that we'll take a look at is what kind of listing the seller used. When putting up their Sony Digital Video Camera to sell them on an online auction, sellers might choose to offer them for one day, or as many as ten days. The most promising listing to look at is Store listings because of its average ending sale price of $134.99. If Store auction listings are not there, then the next best type to look for is Bid-Auctions listings. Bid-Auctions listings have a very respectable closing price of $281.40.

Being armed with good information is definitely something that will help in the final bill when you're shopping at online auction sites. It will always pay off when you have made sure that you know all about Sony Digital Video Cameras before you begin to compare prices. When you start to look around for pricing information on auction sites, refer to the information we have given you here so you know if you are indeed paying the average price, and you will have an advantage when placing bids on Sony Digital Video Cameras. When at an online auction site, if it has featured categories, be sure to give them more than just a glance because that is where you will probably find the best prices. Also, if you can, shop on the days of the week when you're most likely to pay the lowest price, because those can be the best days that you will find the best deals on Sony Digital Video Cameras.


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Digital cameras - Setting the Image Size

Setting the size of an image is something specific to digital cameras, it just didn't exist on film cameras. One effect of changing the size of image your camera takes is that it also affects the size of the digital image file your camera stores on its memory card and therefore the number of pictures you can store on any given size of card.

This is size in terms of computer memory or storage and is expressed in kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes. Digital cameras, like all other digital devices, produce digital files that need a certain amount of space to store them. The image size setting on your camera will significantly affect the size of the resultant image file.

It may be easier to think in terms of how many pictures it will take to fill up your memory card. You will get the maximum number of pictures if the image size is at it’s lowest setting. By the same token, you will get the minimum number of pictures when this is at it’s highest setting.

In practice, this means that if getting as many pictures as possible on your card is the most important thing to you, then you need to adjust the image size to the minimum available setting.

Image size has always been an important aspect of cameras even before they became digital. With film cameras it was controlled by the size of the film that the camera would accept. A 35 millimetre camera was called that because that was the size of film it used. If you wanted larger images, you needed a camera that would accept larger film. These were called medium or large format cameras.

When digital cameras came along the idea of being able to take different sizes of image with the same camera became possible. This is simply done by changing the image size setting in your camera. It is perfectly feasible to change the image size between shots and store different sizes of image on the same card.

One thing that hasn't changed is the effect of using a larger or smaller size of image whether it's a digital image or the size of the negative you got from a film camera. A bigger image (or negative or transparency) will produce a better image. Most adverts for cameras or other sources of information about digital photography will tell you just that, but it's not the whole story.

The first thing to consider is what exactly is meant by a "better image". Things like the accurate reproduction of colour, the image noise produced by the camera or the amount of distortion produced by the lens are entirely unaffected by image size but play a large part in deciding if one picture is technically better than another. It is certainly the case that two different cameras can produce the same size of image but with very different overall technical quality.

That is something to think about when looking to purchase a new camera but it's not under consideration here because this is just about the effect of altering the size setting on your camera. The only thing that changes when you do this is the "resolution" of the images your camera produces.

What is resolution?

The word resolution means the ability to see (or resolve) fine detail in a printed photograph. A high resolution image will have a lot more visible detail than a low resolution image. The image size setting on your camera may even be called resolution because they are so directly related. A large image means high resolution and a small image means low resolution.

Please note that this ability to resolve fine detail only applies when you print your digital photograph and not when you are viewing it on a computer monitor. Viewing a high resolution picture on screen will allow you to zoom in and look at the detail you have captured, but that's it. When you zoom out to see the whole picture then the resolution of the image you see will be that of the screen itself, it physically cannot be any higher than that.

You can prove this for yourself by simply comparing a high and low resolution image side by side on your computer. As long as they are visibly the same size on screen, they will have the same resolution. No matter how close you get to the screen, you will not see any more detail in the larger, high resolution picture.

In practice this means that if you only ever view your digital images on a computer and never print them then you can use your camera's smallest image size setting and gain the benefit of being able to store lots more pictures on your memory card.

On the other hand, if you want to make big prints from your camera's pictures, then you should set the image size to the largest you have available. Another thing you can do with a large image is to print (or view) only a small part of it. This is sometimes called "cropping". So, if you think you might want to do this at any time then you should set your image size or resolution to its maximum.

The size of a digital image is measured in megapixels, which simply means one million pixels. A pixel is the smallest part of a digital image and is a single colour. If you zoom in close enough to any digital image, you can see the individual pixels that it is made of, all neatly lined up in rows and columns.

You might have noticed that, so far, I have not made any mention of the actual numbers involved. Whereas, every reference to a digital camera you come across will usually include mention of the number of megapixels it has. This is an indication of the maximum size of image that the camera can produce.

The actual size of the image only matters when it comes to comparing cameras but, here is an indication of how megapixels relate to resolution and print sizes. A high resolution print at 6 x 4 inches requires just over 2 megapixels. An A4 print (roughly 8 x 11 inches) at the same resolution needs an 8 megapixel image.

The situation is complicated by the fact that it is easy to resize a digital image after it has been taken. This is called “interpolation” and some editing programs (and even some printers) can do it very well. So well in fact, that they can fool the eye into thinking that your picture has more resolution than is actually there. Added to that is the fact that the human eye has an upper limit to the detail it can resolve.

You could print an 8 megapixel image at 6 x 4 inches and although technically it would be at a much higher resolution than the 2 megapixel version, no human in the world has good enough eyesight to tell. You also have to take into account that large pictures tend to be viewed from further away than small ones, which greatly affects how much detail people can actually see. All in all, the whole issue of image size and resolution is at least partly a matter of personal taste.

When it comes to setting up your camera however, it doesn’t matter what the actual largest size is, just that it’s the largest available from your camera. You should use this setting if you ever want to make big prints or do further editing work like cropping and printing just a part of the picture.

If you have never checked the size setting on your camera, I definitely recommend that you do so. Most cameras will give you a choice of either small, medium or large for the size and, when they first come out the factory, they are usually set to medium. I’m sure the manufacturers’ figure that this is a good compromise setting for most people but personally, I think that it’s the setting that is least likely to be right for most people.

For example, if you have an 8 megapixel camera, then a medium setting is likely to be around 4 megapixels. This is too big to view on screen without shrinking it down and, if this is the only way you want to see your pictures, it is quite wasteful of space on your memory card and hard drive. In these cases you should use the minimum size unless that looks too small on screen (you may have a very big screen).

The other side of the coin is that, if you have spent your hard earned money on an 8 megapixel camera because you want to print big, high quality pictures or do some photo editing then, unless you have the image size set to maximum, you wont be taking 8 megapixel pictures. You could have saved your money and just bought a 4 megapixel camera.

So in conclusion, go and check the size setting on your digital camera, you want the minimum size for viewing and email and the largest size for big prints or editing. Medium is usually not much use to anyone. Let’s not compromise!


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